Open Ended

#06: Slide Up In Your DMs

Episode Summary

This week we discuss notification anxiety, our device setups, the Baltimore Uprising, the communication pyramid, and how passive information affects your present being.

Episode Notes

This week we discuss notification anxiety, our device setups, the Baltimore Uprising, the communication pyramid, and how passive information affects your present being.

Show Notes

Special thanks to those that submitted their notifications to be used in today’s episode (in-order of appearance): Subi, Becky, Brandi, and Rob.

Sanebox, an email triage and filtering service.

Pebble Watch

Let’s be honest, “thug” is a euphemism for another word…

IRL Talk Episode 24: You Only Need To Make It To 88 MPH (this link starts at the 44 minute mark for the “communication pyramid” discussion.

Facebook has an Other inbox

This is Slack

Instagram Direct

Phantom Vibration Syndrome

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Your listening, reading, and action list in regards to the Baltimore Uprising:

This Week in Blackness Episode 685: #BaltimoreDispatch

‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us.’: How a group of black social-media activists built the nation’s first 21st-century civil rights movement.

Fundraiser to provide Legal and Bail Support for Baltimore

The Roots of Baltimore’s Riot

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Anti-Social, an app that blocks incoming communications for websites you choose

James’ article on making devices dumb: “Putting on the Blinders”

Open Call: The Aftershow

Cher’s choice for the week: Let it Happen by Tame Impala

James’ choice for the week: The podcast, Another Round, with Heben and Tracy